Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Promises Not To Sign Anti-Tax Pledge He Already Signed

[pampango]

Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake (R), the Republican candidate for his state’s open Senate seat, denied signing the no-tax pledge authored by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and promised he wouldn’t sign such a pledge during his debate with Democratic candidate Richard Carmona on Wednesday. But Flake, according to Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform organization, has already signed the agreement.
Flake told the debate moderator last night that the only pledge he would sign “is a pledge to sign no more pledges”:

MODERATOR: Did you sign the Grover Norquist no-tax pledge?
FLAKE: No.
MODERATOR: Would you sign such a pledge?
FLAKE: No.

Norquist’s pledge was a major hindrance to the passage of a debt ceiling deal that included new revenues last summer, when Congress nearly caused the government to default. Republicans took fire from constituents at town hall meetings across the country afterward, and a slate of Republican lawmakers and candidates have either disavowed the pledge or refused to sign it since. Former Republican leaders have also criticized Norquist’s death-grip on the party: after Norquist criticized him earlier this year, former president George H.W. Bush asked, “Who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?”

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/11/990771/jeff-flake-norquist-tax-pledge/

[annabanana]

1. That's pretty damn funny. They are collectively LOSING IT!. . . n/t

[joycejnr]

3. I'm not so sure they're "losing it"...

...their actions and words are more like those coming from a party that knows they have the elections locked up - no matter how the people vote.

Hmmm.

[Panasonic]

4. Jeff Flake is finished.

And Carmona will be the newest Democratic Senator from Arizona - long-overdue necessity from Arizona and will force McCain to consider retirement to make AZ even more bluer. The final step is the removal of Janice Brewer.

[EasyGirl]

2. He IS a flake.